Word: glazer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEYOND THE MELTING POT by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 360 pages. M.I.T. Press and Harvard University Press...
...Glazer, the son of Jewish immigrants, and Moynihan, the grandson of Irish immigrants, write with a refreshing candor on a subject that is usually treated all too delicately; in fact, they are rather free with sweeping generalizations. They write compassionately of the problems minority groups have faced, but they forthrightly point out that many of those problems are compounded by each group's special characteristics...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...
...following article is reprinted from the January issue of CURRENT, a digest periodical. The article appeared first in HARPER'S, under the title "The Wasted Classroom." Mr. Glazer was a co-author of The Lonely Crowd...
...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...